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Wisconsin Senate Passes Lower Car Insurance Levels
Feb 21 2011 // The Wisconsin state Senate passed legislation that would lower minimum levels of auto insurance. Car insurance would still be required under the bill passed on a bipartisan 25-7 vote, but the levels of coverage required...
Wisconsin Senate Passes Lower Car Insurance Levels
Feb 21 2011 // The Wisconsin state Senate passed legislation that would lower minimum levels of auto insurance. Car insurance would still be required under the bill passed on a bipartisan 25-7 vote, but the levels of coverage required...
Regulators Face Senate Panel Over Dodd-Frank Regulations Today
Feb 17 2011 // Republicans will escalate their push to delay and defund the Dodd-Frank Wall Street reforms on Thursday as top regulators appear before the U.S. Senate Banking Committee with a new chairman presiding. Replacing Christopher...
Mississippi Senate Passes Proof of Auto Insurance Bill
Feb 15 2011 // The Mississippi Senate has passed a bill requiring motorists to show proof they have purchased liability insurance before receiving a car tag. The measure was sponsored by Sen. Billy Hewes, a Republican from Gulfport, who...
Michigan Senate Approves Bill Banning Mandatory Ergonomics Rules
Feb 14 2011 // The Michigan Senate has approved a bill that would prevent administrative rules mandating workplace ergonomics rules. The bill from Republican Sen. Rick Jones of Grand Ledge was approved by a 25-12 vote last Thursday and...
Invited by GOP, Businesses Vent About EPA, OSHA, Dodd-Frank Rules
Feb 11 2011 // On issues ranging from the air we breathe to the noise factories make, business leaders want the government to stay out of their way. And the Republicans, looking toward the 2012 elections, are listening. The House’s...
Oklahoma Senate Committee Passes Lawsuit Reforms
Feb 10 2011 // The Oklahoma Senate Judiciary Committee on Feb. 8 approved five lawsuit reform measures that are key components of the Senate Republican legislative agenda. “We have been working on lawsuit reform for years, taking...
Wisconsin Senate Passes Lower Car Insurance Levels
Feb 10 2011 // The Wisconsin state Senate has passed legislation that would lower minimum levels of car insurance and make it more difficult to approve of sales and income tax increases. Car insurance would still be required under the...
New Jersey Senate Panel OKs Lower Vehicle Fines
Feb 9 2011 // A bill advanced by the Senate Transportation Committee on this week gives some New Jersey drivers a break. The bill reduces the maximum fine for driving without a license, registration or insurance card if the driver can...
Wisconsin Senate to Take up Car Insurance Legislation
Feb 8 2011 // Minimum levels of car insurance that were increased two years ago would drop back down again under a bill up for a vote in the state Senate. Trial lawyers fought for the changes approved by the Democratic-controlled...
Florida Senate Committee Postpones Vote on Property Legislation
Feb 8 2011 // For the second straight week, the Florida Banking and Insurance Committee failed to reach a final vote on its comprehensive property insurance bill. The delay comes as committee members remain bogged down over how to...
Florida Senate Looking to Expand Commercial Deregulation
Feb 8 2011 // The Florida Senate and Banking Insurance Committee has approved a bill that would deregulate a variety of commercial lines of insurance by allowing insurers to offer the coverage without first obtaining the Office of...
Some in Illinois GOP Want to Link Workers’ Comp Reform, State Borrowing
Feb 7 2011 // Illinois lawmakers left two big pieces of unfinished business when they went home after voting to raise income taxes. One piece would make Illinois a less expensive place to do business, and the other would get billions of...
Arkansas Senate to Take Up Cell Phone While Driving Restrictions
Feb 3 2011 // The Senate is looking at banning drivers from using handheld cell phones in school and highway work zones, going a step further than a similar ban that passed the House this week. The Senate is considering a proposal by...
Senate Democrats Block Repeal of Healthcare Law
Feb 3 2011 // President Barack Obama’s fellow Democrats in the U.S. Senate blocked a Republican bid Wednesday to repeal his healthcare overhaul, likely leaving the fate of the year-old law up to the federal courts. The Senate...
Senate Votes to Rescind IRS 1099 Healthcare Reporting Measure
Feb 2 2011 // The U.S. Senate Wednesday voted overwhelmingly to rescind a measure in last year’s healthcare law that expands business transaction reporting requirements to the Internal Revenue Service. Bowing to pressure from...
Senate Republicans Press for Vote to Repeal Healthcare Law
Feb 1 2011 // Republicans moved Tuesday to force a U.S. Senate vote to repeal President Barack Obama’s healthcare overhaul — a day after a federal judge ruled that the law was unconstitutional. Obama’s fellow Democrats...
Democrats Vow to Pursue Oil Spill Liability Bill
Jan 26 2011 // U.S. Democrats Wednesday pressed for new legislation aimed at preventing a repeat of last year’s massive BP oil spill, as Republicans warned that the disaster should not be used to hamper offshore oil and natural gas...
Some in Illinois GOP Want to Link Work Comp Reform, State Borrowing
Jan 25 2011 // Illinois lawmakers left two big pieces of unfinished business when they went home after voting to raise income taxes. One piece would make Illinois a less expensive place to do business, and the other would get billions of...
Work Comp, Tort Reform on Oklahoma Senate Republicans’ Agenda
Jan 21 2011 // The Republicans in the Oklahoma Senate say they are focusing on job creation and budget challenges in their legislative agenda this year. Workers’ compensation and tort reform are among the initiatives they say are...
